News Archives – 2013
December 19, 2013: Andrea Alù has received the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics 2013 from the International Commission for Optics “for ground breaking work in metamaterials and plasmonics, and for the introduction of the concept of scattering-cancellation-based metamaterial cloaking”.
December 17, 2013: Our paper on broadband cloaking using non-Foster metasurfaces has been published in Physical Review Letters, and selected as PRL Editor’s Suggestion.
December 9, 2013: Andrea Alù has been selected as an American Physical Society (APS) Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters journals, by the journal editors.
December 3, 2013: Two of our papers have been accepted and are currently in press in Science.
November 26, 2013: Our review paper on metamaterial-enhanced nanophotonics has been selected and published in the Special Issue of Optics and Photonics News, for Optics in 2013.
November 25, 2013: Andrea Alù has been elevated to Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for “contributions to the theory and applications of electromagnetic metamaterials and plasmonic phenomena”.
November 11, 2013: Our upcoming PRL paper on non-Foster cloaking and our recent PRX paper on cloaking bounds are covered by Time Magazine, BBC, NBC News, Gizmag and Physics World, among many others.
November 7, 2013: Our recent PRX paper on cloaking bounds is covered by BBC, NBC News, Gizmag and Physics World.
November 5, 2013: Our invited paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Terahertz Metamaterial Devices Based on Graphene Nanostructures,” has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, Special Issue on Metamaterials, Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 748-756.
October 29, 2013: Andrea Alù has received the inaugural 2013 Franco Strazzabosco Award for Young Engineers at the Italian Embassy in Washington, DC,awarded to an Italian engineer under 40 to recognize his entrepreneurial courage who strive in applying scientific discoveries to public advantage.The award came together with the Medal of Representation of the President of the Republic of Italy.
October 29, 2013: Francesco Monticone has received an IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award.
October 28, 2013: Andrea Alù has been elected Fellow of the Optical Societ of America “for outstanding contributions to the fields of photonic metamaterials, plasmonic phenomena and devices, cloaking and scattering suppression.”
October 21, 2013: Our invited paper F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Do Cloaked Objects Really Scatter Less?,” has been published in Physical Review X, Special Issue onMetamaterials, Vol. 3, No. 4, 041005 (10 pages).
October 15, 2013: Our paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Terahertz Metamaterial Devices Based on Graphene Nanostructures,” has been published in Nanotechnology, Vol. 24, No. 45, 455202 (7 pages).
October 1, 2013: Our paper C. Argyropoulos, F. Monticone, G. D’Aguanno, and A. Alù, “Plasmonic Nanoparticles and Metasurfaces to Realize Fano Spectra at Ultraviolet Wavelengths,” has been published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 103, No. 14, 143113 (4 pages).
September 23, 2013: Francesco Monticone has won the best student paper award at Metamaterials 2013, with the paper F. Monticone, A. Alù,’On Physical Bounds of Cloaking and Invisibility’.
September 23, 2013: Our invited paper G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Electromagnetic Funneling through a Single-Negative Slab Paired with a Double-Positive Transformation Slab,” has been published in The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering – COMPEL, Special Issue for FEM2010/MeTA2010, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp.1821-1833.
September 23, 2013: Our invited paper M. Barbuto, A. Alù, F. Bilotti, A. Toscano, and L. Vegni,“Characteristic Impedance of a Microstrip Line with a Dielectric Overlay,” has been published in The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering – COMPEL, Special Issue for FEM2010/MeTA2010, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp.1855-1867.
September 7, 2013: Our paper X. X. Liu, J. W. Massey, M. F. Wu, K. T. Kim, R. A. Shore, A. E. Yılmaz, and A. Alù,“Homogenization of Three-Dimensional Metamaterial Objects and Validation by a Fast Surface-Integral Equation Solver,” has been published in Optics Express,Vol. 21, No. 19, pp. 21714-21727.
September 2, 2013: Our paper D. L. Sounas, C. Caloz, and A. Alù, “Giant Non-Reciprocity at the Subwavelength Scale Using Angular Momentum-Biased Metamaterials,”has been published in Nature Communications, Vol. 4, No. 2407 (7 pages).
September 1, 2013: A. Alù is promoted to Associate Professor and David & Doris Lybarger Endowed Faculty Fellow in Engineering.July 29, 2013: Our paper R. Fleury, and A. Alù, “Extraordinary Sound Transmission through Density-Near-Zero Ultranarrow Channels,”has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 111, No. 5, 055501 (5 pages).
June 26, 2013: Our paper X. X. Liu, and A. Alù, “Generalized Retrieval Method for Metamaterial Constitutive Parameters Based on a Physically Driven Homogenization Approach,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 87, No. 23, 235136 (7 pages).
June 17, 2013: Our invited paper C. Argyropoulos, N. Mohammadi Estakhri, F. Monticone, and A. Alù,“Negative Refraction, Gain and Nonlinear Effects in Hyperbolic Metamaterials,” has been published inOptics Express, Focus Issue on Hyperbolic Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications, Vol. 21, No. 12, pp. 15037-15047.
May 30, 2013: Phys.org covers our paper on meta-transmitarrays.May 15, 2013: Our paper R. Fleury, and A. Alù, “Furtive Quantum Sensing Using Matter-Wave Cloaks,,” has been published in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications,Vol. 87, No. 20, 201106(R) (5 pages).
May 14, 2013: Our paper F. Monticone, N. Mohammadi Estakhri, and A. Alù, “Full Control of Nanoscale Optical Transmission with a Composite Metascreen,”has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, No. 20, 203903 (5 pages). The paper has been selected as PRL Editor’s suggestion!
May 10, 2013: Our paper R. Fleury, and A. Alù, “Enhanced Superradiance in Epsilon-Near-Zero Plasmonic Channels,” has been published inPhysical Review B, Rapid Communications, Vol. 87, No. 20, 201101(R) (5 pages).
May 10, 2013: Our paper N. Mohammadi Estakhri, and A. Alù, “Physics of Unbounded, Broadband Absorption/Gain Efficiency in Plasmonic Nanoparticles,”has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 87, No. 20, 205418 (9 pages).
May 10, 2013: Our paper C. Argyropoulos, K. Q. Le, N. Mattiucci, G. D’Aguanno, and A. Alù,“Broadband Absorbers and Selective Emitters Based on Plasmonic Brewster Metasurfaces,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 87, No. 20, 205112 (6 pages).
May 7, 2013: The comment G. Eleftheriades, A. Alù, “Comment on ‘Propagation and Negative Refraction’,”has been published in IEEE Microwave Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 24-30.
May 6, 2013: The paper A. Alù, “Wave-Shaping Surfaces,” has been published in Physics, Vol. 6, No. 53.
April 24, 2013: Our paper G. Castaldi, S. Savoia, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “PT Metamaterials via Complex-Coordinate Transformation Optics,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, No. 17, 173901 (5 pages). The paper has been selected as PRL Editor’s suggestion!
April 7, 2013: Christos Argyropoulos has received the 2013 Raj Mittra Travel Award!
April 1, 2013: Our invited paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Theory, Modeling and Features of Optical Nanoantennas,” has been published in theIEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Special Issue on Antennas and Propagation at Mm‐ and Sub Mm‐Waves, Vol. 61, No. 4, Part 1, pp. 1508-1517.
April 1, 2013: Our paper P. Y. Chen, C. Argyropoulos, and A. Alù, “Terahertz Antenna Phase Shifters Using Integrally-Gated Graphene Transmission-Lines,”has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Special Issue on Antennas and Propagation at Mm‐ and Sub Mm‐Waves,Vol. 61, No. 4, Part 1, pp. 1528-1537.
March 27, 2013: our new paper on mantle cloaking New J. Phys. 15, 033037 (2013) has raised international attention on the general news. Press release.Some examples: CNN, NBC, Fox, Discovery, US News, Daily Mail, Physics World, TIME. Please check our recent TEDx talk on the topic for more info.
March 25, 2013: Andrea Alù has received the 2013 OSA Adolph Lomb Medal for ‘outstanding contributions to the fields of optical metamaterials and plasmonic optics, and for development of the concept of plasmonic cloaking’. The award, established in 1940, recognizes noteworthy contributions made to optics before reaching the age of 35.
March 25, 2013: Our paper J. C. Soric, P. Y. Chen, A. Kerkhoff, D. Rainwater, K. Melin, and A. Alù,“Demonstration of an Ultralow Profile Cloak for Scattering Suppression of a Finite-Length Rod in Free Space,” has been published in New Journal of Physics,Vol. 15, No. 3, 033037 (18 pages).
March 15, 2013: Our paper Y. Zhao, and A. Alù, “Tailoring the Dispersion of Plasmonic Nanorods to Realize Broadband Optical Meta-Waveplates,”has been published in Nano Letters, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 1086-1091.
March 12, 2013: Our paper F. Monticone, C. Argyropoulos, and A. Alù, “Multi-Layered Plasmonic Covers for Comblike Scattering Response and Optical Tagging,”has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, No. 11, 113901 (5 pages). The paper has been selected as PRL Editor’s suggestion!
March 4, 2013: Our paper D. Rainwater, A. Kerkhoff, K. Melin, J. C. Soric, G. Moreno, and A. Alù, New J. Phys. 14, 013054 (2012) has been selectedas one of the 2012 Highlights of the New Journal of Physics.
February 19, 2013: Watch our TEDx talk on our recent work on metamaterials and cloaking!Coverage from the Cockrell School of Engineering and the script are here. Also on the TED website.
January 29, 2013: A News and Views article from Peter Nordlander highlighting our recent Nature Nanotechnology paper on magnetic-based Fano resonant nanoclusterhas appeared in the same issue]!
January 29, 2013: Our paper Y. Lee, K. Hoshino, A. Alù, and X. Zhang, “Tunable Directive Radiation of Surface-Plasmon Diffraction Gratings,”has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 2748-2756.
January 27, 2013: Our paper F. Shafiei*, F. Monticone*, K. Q. Le, X. X. Liu, T. Hartsfield, A. Alù, and X. Li,“A Subwavelength Plasmonic Metamolecule Exhibiting Magnetic-Based Optical Fano Resonance,” has been published in Nature Nanotechnology!
January 22, 2013: Our paper R. Fleury, and A. Alù, “Plasmonic Cloaking of Matter Waves,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 87, No. 4, 045423 (6 pages).
January 9, 2013: Our paper N. Liu*, F. Wen*, Y. Zhao*, Y. Wang, P. Nordlander, N. Halas, and A. Alù,“Individual Nanoantennas Loaded with Three-dimensional Optical Nanocircuits,” has been published in Nano Letters, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 142-147.